The patient hunter and the swarm

Palpatine felt his head feel the pressure of his headache threaten to overwhelm his control as the Gungans rambled on about wanting to travel to the senate together, just wanting the amphibians to stop talking in their annoying manner he told his Guard Captain to take care of it, just wanting to finish his breakfast in peace. The guard escorted the Gungans out and with their presence gone his headache started to ease off, and he resumed his eating, the cooled meal not providing as satisfactory as he hoped. Finishing off his morning tasks he headed out to the landing pad in a bad mood, using his skills in the force to shore up his feelings, hoping that the travel to the senate building will be quick, quiet, and uneventful.

Binks was glad he could talk the Chancellor to giving them him a ride, hopefully, that would discourage any more bounty hunters from attacking, as any hunter with an ounce of brains would attack the Chancellor due to the resulting backlash, however, Jar jar forgot that it was not just smart bounty hunters after him.

Cad Bane reviewed the recordings that he could access what had happened, going over every bit, hoping to figure out what had happened. As he watched he mused over the puzzling conundrum of his target, he reviewed what he knew so far. Yesterday hardly anyone had heard of the Gungan, just another no-name temporary representative while a senator went out doing something off of Coruscant. The amphibian just sat though most of the senate meetings like any good temporary place holder, then, makes an obviously first time at the start speech, that quickly turns into a polished and effective bit of speechcraft that manages to blow through the infamous deadlock of the senate. That alone was impressive and worth keeping an eye on, but then out of nowhere the largest bounty in the last thousand years gets dropped on the Gungans head though the oldest, best, most reliable, and trustworthy escrow agency in the galaxy. This meant that not only was a large amount of money available for the taking, but it was better guaranteed the republic credit was nowadays. This drew in every bounty hunter worth their salt that was free to make a move, and every gutter trash with a weapon that wanted to make it big. Bane was surprised that he had not seen any of the forces the Coruscant Hutt clan could bring to bear, he would have expected them to be on an opportunity like this like flies on a week-old corpse. Between the silence of the Hutts, and the surprising moves the Gungan had managed, he was starting to get the suspicious feeling of something being up with this that was not on the up and up. With the unexpected effectiveness of the target, Bane decided that perhaps he did not need to take out the target to get the bounty, simply wait for one of the multitudes that came out of the woodwork to take the target, then simply take the bounty from them once they claimed it. Bane let a grin form on his face, as the thought that perhaps the one that took out this target would gain a bounty of their own, after all the only thing better than getting a good payday, was getting paid twice for your efforts.

As Jar Jar and Palpatine entered the opulent aircar to start their journey to the senate, a massive amount of various craft was gathered from all the various small-time gangs, hoodlums, thugs, and two-bit scoundrels from all over Coruscant. They were led by a cloaked figure that promised them an equal share of the bounty if they managed to take out one simple Gungan, as this riffraff had not seen how effective one Gungan could be, they thought this was a simple task and were expecting an easy time of it, with more then enough numbers to simply overwhelm and distract whatever guards they could bring to bear. The plan was simple, as was needed with dealing with some of those gathered. They would fly out once the target was identified, and swarm, using their numbers to take care of any opposition and take out the amphibian in one loosely organized wave.

Normally any gathering of such a force of aggressors this close to the senate and the Jedi temple, would have been detected and dealt with before it could form, but the double whammy of the veil of the dark side, and all available effective Jedi off-planet in the effort to save Senator Amidala, meant that there was a serious hole in the normal defensive procedures that no one had realized. Bounty hunters used to working on the city-planet were used to operating in low profile to prevent such detection, but the gathered group had not even thought of such things, only the odd timing allowing them to gather in such numbers and force. The cloaked figure held one covered limb to their head then addressed to the waiting group, the signal had been given, their target had been sighted and was on the move. With a roar on noise from those gathered, they started their machines and with a mass that cast a moving shadow in the morning rays they took off. The hunt was on.